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234: Rakib Ehsan: What the left gets wrong about ethnic minorities

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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The Left's Identity Politics

I want to ask you how we got into this situation. And you have a very useful way of describing the contemporary expressions of this problem in your book. You talk about the impact of two things in particular on contemporary discourse. Firstly, the vote for Brexit in 2016, and then secondly, the explosion of the Black Lives Matter idea and movement in 2020. Why do you think those two events were important to the ideas that you're concerned about and want to challenge? Well, I think thatBrexit was a phenomenon which is suffered from grossly inaccurate caricatures. The moment it took place, many people described it as a form of white nostalgia,. That's what Vince Cable, big figure on the liberal

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